Sharp Instrument

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: that the deceast John Taylor came to his death By measures unknown to the Jury.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
razor
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that Alfred Hollingsworth came to his death by a razor cut in the hands of George Hutcherson

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their oaths do say that Henry Burt came to his death from a knife wound n the hands of Jim Chamberlain

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
umbrella
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say. . .that Charles Cobb, did come to his death. . .from injuries inflicted by the hands of one Thomas Cherry, with an umbrella

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
pocket knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that one Lewis Moore . . .came to his death from wounds in right arm inflicted with pocket knife in the hands of Robert Bauknight (Col)

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that. . .was deceased stabbed to death With a Knife in the hands of one[?] Rufus Dent

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say we find John Agner Jr came to his death by wounds in his body inflicted by a knife. . .By a knife in the hands of one of the following named parties. Washington Hamilton James Hamilton or Perry Hamilton.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Michael Long Came to his death from a wound in the right Side of the neck inflicted by a knife in his own hand

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

That the deceased came to his death from a Knife in the hands of a colored boy named Sam formerly the property of John Trapp and now living on his premises . . . upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Sam Trapp in manner & form aforesaid Andrew Trapp then and there feloniously did kill

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That Louisa Laudon came to her death by a knife in the hands of some person or persons unknown

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